Saturday, October 24, 2015

261.365 - what I learn from Donny Jackson

it is not just the language
which he uses as if he invents it
every time his tongue becomes a pen
or his fingertips a typewriter
and black letters burn white paper
with his smolders
it is also his empathy
his knowing another's heart mind feelings
like I know a computer
I have taken apart and reassembled
only he does it without the apart
and back together
he somehow is that person
while still in his own skin
and the double-heat
burns his language
his knowledge
into us

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